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General Improvement in Pub
: lie Confidence Reported by
: Newspaper Executives.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26 —A marked
Improvement in public confidence and
in general business conditions was noted
yesterday by newspaper publishers from
widespread industrial and agricultural
areas. >
In the South. Clark Howell of the
Atlanta Constitution said: "The reaction
to pending: legislation already has been
extremely favorable, as shown in an in
crease of cotton prices of approxi
mately l'i cents a pound."
Mr. Howell said he felt "this is due
more to tne inflation program than to
reaction to the farm relief program."
"So long as kept under control, as it
can be under pending legislation. I think
the effect of inflation will be to increase
commodity prices. That is the keystone
of returning prosperity."
Confidence Has Improved.
Col. Prank Knox of the Chicago Daily
News said the action of the stock mar
ket in the last week "is a perfect ex
ample of what happens in a rising mar
ket. This is more fundamentally illus
trated in the commodity market. There
has already been a healthy increase in
the price of farm commodities, wholly
by the expectation of inflation. When
inflation actually comes, providing it is
controlled, farm prices will go still high
er and by this ^a^■ate the necessity for
most of the remedies proposed in the
pending farm measure."
Chicago, Col. Knox said, "is very
much in favor of a controlled inflation
in both credit and currency. And we
believe the present price level is as
much over-deflated as over-inflated in
1929."
George B. Longan of the Kansas
City Star said he had "no doubt but
what the feeling of confidence among
the people has improved more than
300 per cent."
Mingled with the comments of the
publishers, in New York for meetings
of the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association and the Associated Press,
was praise of President Roosevelt and
expressions of confidence in his ad
ministration.
Approve President's Action.
The President was described by the
Kansas City publisher as "a man of
action who has given us a feeling that
we most assuredly are not marking
time and who is using every means to
get results."
The published said that "while the
Kansas City Star has been an advo
cate of sound money, we are not
alarmed over the inflation pfogram.
We think that thoughtful people un
derstand that the administration has
a strategic plan and only that part
will be used that is essential to what
we might term reflation."
Both L. K. Nicholson of the New
Orleans Times-Picayune and W. H.
Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Re
view found favor with the adminis
tration's handling of the banking sit
uation.
"The whole Nation is indebted to Mr.
Roosevelt for his courageous and posi
tive work in handling the banking
crisis." said Mr. Cowles, while Mr.
Nicholson felt that "one of the essen
tial things for recovery is certainly the
getting down to a solid foundation by
rebuilding and strengthening our bank
ing structure. And this Mr. Roosevelt
is doing "
The New Orleans publisher cited that
"the President says much of his pro
gram is more or less experimental. We
art- in strong sympathy with this lead
ership and the people in Louisiana have
been quick to respond to the continuous
action in Washington."
Helps Lumber Industry.
The reaction of the lumber industry
In Washington to the administration's
gold embargo was cited by the Spokane
publisher.
"The results of this embargo in the
matter of increased prices," Mr. Cowles
*aid. "was of great importance in the
Northwest.
"The drop in the exchange was of
prea' consequence because it reduced
the ability ot Canada and Japan to ship
in and undersell American producers.
This lowering of the exchange neces
sarily affects the lumber industry,
which is a very large factor in the
Northwest's prosperity. Already, there
lias been considerable increase in em
ployment and resumption of operation
in mills."
Mr. Cowles said there is not. as far
as he is able to sense, "a united senti
ment behind the administration's farm
program and the suggestion that the
Government enter upon a program of
controlling the hours and wages in in
dustry."
An "Act in the Hole."
In Indiana, Henry W. Marshall of
the Lafayette Journal and Courier
found that "people have a lot of faith
in President Roosevelt and what he is
trying to do. Particularly is this true
of the iarmers."
Mr. Marshall said he found a feeling
that "a moderate controlled inflation
will be helpful."
Col. Knox, who was a close advisor to
former President Hoover, said his "ad
miration for President Roosevelt has
been greatly enhanced by his astute
preparation for the impending world
conference. The power he asks in pend
ing currency legislation may never be
used and probably will not b?. But this
gives him an ace in the hole when they
get around the conference table, which
may prove immeasurably valuable."
Anxious to break the world's diving
record, a youth of 19 recently jumped
220 feet from the tower of a railway
bridge into the River Mass, in the Neth
erlands. and has been arrested near
Rotterdam charged with trespassing on
the bridge and swimming in torbidden
waters.
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Hock of Fprini rd. n.w . on or about Janu
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ANNUAL MEETING OP STOCKHOLDERS.
Washington Permanent Building Association,
will be held at the oBlce. No tl20 P «t. n w..
May 3. 1933. at 3:30 pm. for election of
officers and directors. Polls opjn from 10
a.m. to - p hi.
HERMANN H. REROMANN.
Secretary.
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A. P. Officers and Directors at Annual Mating
Officers and directors of the Associated Press, assembled In New York for the annual meeting of the news organ
i7ation. Seated (left to right): W. H. Cowles, Spokane Spokesman-Review; Elbert H. Baker, Cleveland Plain Dealer;
W. J. Pape, Waterbury Republican; Prank B. Noyes (president). The Washington Star, and Adolph S. Ochs, New York
Times. Standing (left to right); J. Randall Youatt, treasurer; Jack.son S. Elliott, assistant general manager; E. Lansing
Ray, St. Louis Globe Democrat; Kent Cooper, general manager; J. R. Knowland, Oakland Tribune; Robert McLean,
Philadelphia Bulletin: Frederick E. Murphy, Minneapolis Tribune; Stuart H. Perry, Adrian Daily Telegraph; Robert R.
McCormick, Chicago Tribune; Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun; George B. Longan, Kansas City Star; Richard Hooker,
Springfield Republican, and L. K. Nicholson, New Orleans Times-Picayune. —A. P. Photo.
NEWSPAPER GROUP
TOED UNITY NEED
President Davis Reviews Ac
complishments at 47th
Annual Session.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26.—The main
sessions of the Forty-seventh Annual
Convention of the American Newspaper
Publishers' Association were begun at
the Waldorf-Astoria today, with How
ard Davis of the New York Herald
Tribune. president of the association,
telling the members the organization
was never before so necessary to their
welfare.
"Throughout the 47 years of our
organization's existence." he said, "I
believe that never before have we
needed as we do today the constructive
work being done by the association,
through its many committees and loyal
members, and the protection that
comes to our industry through the close
co-operation engendered by member
ship in an association organized for
the purpose of bringing into accord the
divergent viewpoints on management
and operation of a large number of
daily newspaper publishers for their
general welfare."
More than a dozen committees, which
have studied the various mechanical
and economic phases of the newspaper
business, delivered their reports.
TEXAS LEGISLATORS
PROBE "OIL LOBBY"
Stir Created by Fight in Hotel as
Seven Companies Post 10-Cents
a-Barrel Prices.
By the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex., April 26.—Turbulent
affairs of the big East Texas oil field,
"bad boy" of the oil industry and most
productive petroleum area in the United
States, took the attention today of a
committee composed of members of both
houses in the Texas Legislature, bent
on investigating activities of an alleged
"oil lobby."
While this committee called witnesses
to testify concerning a fight at a hotel
in which a legislator and a prominent
oil man were injured, seven purchasing
companies in the field had posted prices
of 10 cents a barrel for East Texas
crude and many independent oil land
owners of the area were considering
closing their wells voluntarily, to protect
their investment in oil now in storage.
The Legislative Committee began
work immediately after the lawmakers
learned yesterday Representative Gor
don Burns of Huntsville was injured
in a fight in a hotel corridor with
Charles F. Roeser, president of the
Texas Oil and Gas Conservation Asso
ciation. Burns was in a hospital.
Burns had opposed the passage of a
bill designed to strip the Texas Rail
road Commission of its oil regulatory
powers.
MARIE DRESSLER SPIKES
RUMOR OF RETIREMENT
Announces "Man Hunt" for Person
Who Began Report When
Questioned.
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, April 26. — Marie
Dressier, veteran screen star, an
nounced a "man hunt" when she was
questioned last night about her rumcred
retirement from pictures after com
pleting her current film.
"I'm looking for the man who
storted that rumor." she declared. "I
have no more intention of retiring than
I have cf riding a bicycle down Holly
wood boulevard in shorts.
"What would I retire from, and
where would I retire? Work always
has been my entire life. Retirement
and quiet, little cottages, dogs and cats
and parrots, are all right for folks
who like them, but net for me, after
almost a half a century in the fun and
excitement of stage and screen."
The "retirement" rumors were at
tributed to "intimate friends" of Miss
Dressier.
SINGER WINS DIVORCE
Marion Campbell Gets Decree From
Nip Strongheart.
LOS ANGELES. April 25 (IF).—A
divorce was granted yesterday to Mrs.
Marion Strongheart. known on the opera
stage as Marion Campbell, from Nip
Strongheart. Indian author and lecturer.
The case was contested, and both
principals charged cruelty. Mrs. Strong
heart charged her husband associated
with other women, and Strongheart
brought the name of Samuel Insull,
fugitive Chicago utilities magnate, into
the case with the assertion his wife
corresponded with Insull and once sent
him roses when he left for Europe.
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LEBEC COMING HERE
Chief Inspector of French Ministry
to Arrive by Plane.
The chief inspector of the Ministry
of France. J. Lebec. whose office is
equivalent to that of Undersecretary of
the Treasury in this country, will fly
to Washington tomorrow afternoon
from New York.
Arriving in New York from France
tomorrow, M. Lebec will be taken im
mediately to Newark Airport to board
an Eastern Air Transport plane leav
ing at 3:40 p. m. for Washington. He
is to arrive at Washington-Hoover Air
port at 5:50 p. m.
Newspapers Asked
To Carry Radio News
Only as Advertising
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26 — A reso
lution calling upon newspapers
to accept radio broadcasting pro
grams as advertising matter only
was offered before the forty
seventh annual convention of the
American Newspaper Publishers'
Association today by E. H. Harris,
chairman of the organization's
Radio Committee.
The committee also made five
recommendations urging protest
against the selling or giving away
of news to radio stations in ad
vance of publication and that
newspapers preserve at all costs
their proprietary rights in news.
WORTHINGTONMINT
HAS NOTED ENTRIES
List of Saturday's Steeple
chasers Reads Like Amer
ican Blue Book.
BV ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR.
Reading like the 1933 American
blue book of amateur steeplechasing.
the entry list for the fortieth Mary
land Hunt Cup. to be run Saturday
afternoon in Worthington Valley, was
announced yesterday by a committee
of sportsmen directing this season's
meeting.
Almost every first-class timber horse
in training hereabouts for the cross
country sport is included in the group
of 16 nominated by stables from half
a dozen States for the Maryland
classic.
Two past winners are among those
named. They are Alligator, 1929 vie- I
tor. owned by Mrs. S. Bryce Wing of
Harford County, Md.. and Brose Hover,
the 1930 winner, from the stable of
Benjamin Leslie Behr of Chicago.
Brose Hover missed by inches win
ning again last year, but was nosed l
out In the final strides by Mrs. T. H.
Sommerville's Troublemaker. which
finished standing up in the 1933 Eng
lish Grand National this Spring. Trou
blemaker will not return from England
in time to prepare for the Maryland.
In the 21 years the Ross Whistler
Challenge Cup has stood as symbol of
victory in the Maryland no owner has
been able to gain three victories and
retire it.
Mr. Behr has won it twice, in 1925
and 1930. C. L. A. Heiser, on whose es
tate and the adjoining property of J.
W. Y. Martin the hunt cup course is
laid, also holds two legs on the trophy,
but there will be no entry to carry his
colors this year.
In 1932, approximately 25,000 spec
tators braved a drizzling rain to watch
a brilliant field sweep over the four
miles of turf and 22 post and vail fences
in quest of the most coveted victory in
American amateur horse racing. In
view of the ever increasing popularity
of steeplechase meets in the area and
the extraordinary caliber of the starters
Saturday, it is probable last year's at
tendance records will be shattered.
Line-up of Entries.
The entries line-up as follows: Benja
min Leslie Behr has named Royal Play.
Sir John L. and Brose Hover. All prob
ably will start, as the Illinois sportsman
naturally is anxious to increase his
chances of retiring the Whistler cup.
Frank Bonsai, jr., will have the leg up
on Brose Hover; John Pearson on Sir
John L. and the rider of Royal Play has
not yet been named.
Richard K. Mellon of Pennsylvania
will place in competition a strong pair.
Cornea and Pink Tipped. Cornea fell
while among the front runners in this
race last year, and recently showed a
creditable effort in the Middleburg Cup.
James Ryan will ride. Pink Tipped won
the Carolina Cup at Camden in March,
has started but once since and fell that
time. The jockey will be Jack Skinner.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Durant of Vir
ginia and New York have a husbar.d
against wife entry in Fugitive and Row
land. Fugitive scored several impressive
victories for Mrs. Durant last year,
handled then and again Saturday by
Randolph Duffey of Middleburg. No
rider has been named for Mr. Durant's
Rowland.
Jumping Jack, owned by Mrs. Francis
P. Garvan of New York, won My Lady's
Manor point to point by 10 lengths in I
a hand gallop two weeks ago. Crawford
Burton will be in the saddle.
Hubar, winner of the 1933 New Jersey
Cup. comes from the stable of Howard
Bruce, the Maryland sportsman who
won 'this race with Billy Barton in
1926. With Raymond Woolf up, the
Bruce stable is out to wrfte Its name
on the Whistler Cup again.
Ready Wit and Capt. Kettle, from the
string of jumpers owned by Chsrles S.
Cheston of Philadelphia, have made
past history in Maryland race meets.
Their riders will be Stuart Janney, Jr.,
and Charles White, respectively.
From Same Stable.
Starlite. from the same stable which
sent Grubstake to win the Maryland
little Grand National in Green Spring
Valley last Saturday, captured the
Glenwood timber race at Middleburg
on the second day of the recent meeting
there. James McCormick. who was In
the saddle that day, will again ride for
Mrs Raymond Belmont.
Albert Ober. jr., brought D. K. E.
Bruce's Bill Clark across the finish line
last Saturday in the Grand National.
Bill Clark was fourth, but at least-was
one of the few entries to escape the
fall. Ober will ride this one again In
the Hunt cup.
B O'F. Randolph's Lipan Lad. from
his Millwood. Va.. stable, has been In
the money in past meets. Stuart Rose
will ride.
Mrs. Frank M. Gould's Ostend. con
sidered one of the mast likely horses In
the Virginia trained contingent, was
scratched today.
Conditions of the race eall for an im
post of 165 pounds on all horses, ex
cept 5-year-olds, which are allowed 5
pounds, and 4-year-olds, allowed 15.
Overweight la allowat
PUBLISHER SCORES
TAX "EXTORTIONS"
Robert R. McCormick of the
Chicago Tribune Points to
Decreased Incomes.
NEW YORK, April 26 (*>).—Col.
Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, criticised today what
he called "exhorbitant taxation."
In a talk at a Bond Club luncheon,
he said:
"Incomes have greatly decreased and
many of them have ceased. Incomes
can no longer bear the extortions that
have crippled them and the Industries
which produced them.
"The World War changed the entire
scale of national Income and national
expenditures.
"The habit of exuberant and exorbi
tant taxation continued and was borne
by a people who had been taught to
bear it under the stress of national
necessity. The n'eds to re-establish:
ourselves In civil life diverted our at- |
tention from the corruption of our poll- i
tics. The vast, if temporary, pros- j
peritv which flowed from our post-war !
vigor concealed the extent to which we ,
were being bled.
"The propagandists found new euphe- ]
misms for public expenditures in civil i
life to take the place of patriotism and |
self-sacrifice for unnecessary wasteful- ;
ness in war time. The greatest post- ,
war th»fts of public funds have been
camouflaged as desirable projects for
indispensible services.
"One weapon of the peace-time.
propagandists has been to direct the;
public attitude toward war-time prof
iteering. for which they were largely
responsible, against necessary peace
time industries. There was a natural
antipathy toward the men who got rich
frcm war necessities. Progressive taxa
tion was imposed no more to provide
revenue than to punish the profiteers." j
Dr. Fordney in professor of crimi
nology at a famous university. His
advice Is often sought by the police of
many cities when confronted with partic
ularly bafflirg cases. This problem has
been taken from his casebook covering
hundreds cf criminal investigations.
Try your wits on it! It takes but
ONE MINUTE to read! Every fact and
every clue necossary to its solution are
in the story itself—and there is only
one answer. How good a detective are
you? %
Gang Massacre.
BY H. A. RIPLEY.
WITH a sigh Prof. Fordney con- ]
tinued his examination of!
the bullets. That morning
the most horrible gang mas
sacre In American history
had been perpetrated. Eight men had
been lined up in a garage and mowed
down with machine gun, revolver bullets 1
and shotgun slugs.
Only one person 1
had been found
who knew anything
about It—a thor
o u g h 1 y reliable
woman. She in- ]
formed the police
that she had seen a
car with four men
draw up to the I
garage opposite her
house. Three men, i
two In police uni- I
form, entered it— J
the fourth remain
ing at the wheel. I
In a few seconds
a number of shots
were heard and in
less than 2 minutes
the 3 came out and
drove off. They all wore overcoats.
Fordney had arrived with the police
and after carefully inspecting the grue
some scene accompanied the ccroner to
the morgue, where the bullets and slugs |
were extracted from the bodies and
turned over to him. Each of the victims
had 3 or 4 revolver and many machine
gun bullets, as well as a number of
shotgun slugs in them. They had been
literally riddled!
"Here's how it must have happened,
Joe," said Inspector Kelley, later recon
structing the crime. "Those 3 men
bluffed the gangsters that they were
police—lined them up and gave them
the works! Afterwards "
"Come now, Jim," interrupted the
professor. "Think for a moment."
"Why—by gad, Joe, you're right!"
exploded the inspector. "Why didn't I
see it before? I'll change our whole In
vestigation at once!"
HOW DID PORDNEY KNOW KEL
LEY S RECONSTRUCTION WAS
WRONG?
Perhaps you have a story or problem
you would like to submit to Prof. Ford
ney. If so. send it to him in care of this
paper. He will be delighted to receive It.
(For Solution See Page A-9.)
FOOD AND DRUG PARLEY
Tugwell Conference to Consider
Revision of Act.
Revision of the food and drugs act
will be considered tomorrow. Friday and
Saturday at the Agriculture Department
at a conference called by Assistant Sec
retary Tugwell. Those invited to the
conference include representatives of the
food and drug trade.
Tugwell has been delegated by Presi
dent Roosevelt to make a study of the
act, which is enforced by his depart
ment. A large number of suggestions
for improving it had been submitted to
him.
HUMAN BABYFOUND
SIMILAR TO MONKEY
Anthropoid Features of Child
Distinguished From Those
of Adult.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
The human child la closer to a monkey
than' the adult and passes through
various stages of his tree-climbing an
cestors on his way to manhood.
This was reported to the National
Academy of Sciences yesterday by Dr.
Charles B. Davenport, biologist of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
and the conclusion was based on physi
cal measurements of hundreds of chil
dren. It is well-known. Dr. Davenport
said, that before birth the human be
ing "recapitulates" various stages in the
evolution of the species. Thus at one
time, he has the gill slits of a Itsh. at
another the kidney of an amphibian,
and still later a tail.
But the big ape stages, through which
the immediate ancestors of man must
have passed, remain until after birth.
At birth, said Dr. Davenport, is an ap
proximately circular cylinder.
"This," he said, "la the generalized,
undifferentiated form of chest. It is
rather characteristic of the adult tree
climbers and fits them for the undif
ferentiated movements required in
climbing. In running quadrupeds, like
the horse, the depth of the chest be
i comes greater than the breadth."
Thigh Grows Faster. I
At first, he pointed out, the upper
and lower segments of the human leg
are very unequal and the thigh takes
the initiative in rapid growth. This
appears to be the undifferentiated con
dition among mammals. Later the lower
leg grows rapidly so that it is about 90
per cent as long as the thigh at the
eleventh or twelfth year. This condi
tion is characteristic of tree climbers.
Later the thigh again forges ahead, a
typical human condition. The develop
ment of the long thigh takes the ado
lescent boy or girl out of the class of
climbing jumping and romping animals
into that of walkers and runners.
"The human foot." Dr. Davenport
said, "shows remarkable adaptations for
distributing the great weight of the
body to the whole foot in the most effl- |
cient fashion. But the adaptive changes :
are completed only as adolescence ap- |
pears. The Infant his an instep rather I
like the anthropoid apes. This Instep
increases to adolescence and gives a val
uable resilience to the step.
"The human fet-1 foot' is at first long,
as compared with the lower leg. just as
in the anthropoid ape. This may be
regarded as a generalized condition. In
later months this foot index diminishes
while It remains high in the adult
gorilla and chimpanzee. A long heel
is a human characteristic. The foetus
has a relatively short heel bone, a con
dition that is retained by the adult
chimpanzee and the orang-utan, but
the human heel bone increases in
childhood up to adolesence."
The strange parallelism between the
development of the individual and the
development of the species, Dr. Diven
port said, is clearly due to the fact
that the higher forms pass through the
same eariy stages that the lower forms
do, but go beyond the point at which
the less evolved species stop their de
velopment.
Watch Dop of Blood Stream.
The actual effect of the recently dis
covered chemical substance secreted
from the cortex of the adrenal gland,
abrence of which is fatal, was explained
by Dr. W. W. Swingle of Prince Uni
versity. Experimenting with dogs from
whom the adrenal gland had been re
moved. Dr. Swingle found evidence that
the volume of blood decreased steadily
to the death point. The animals had
no ability to make use of water to add |
to the pbsma base of the blood which
was last through the capillary walls. j
Cells which serve as watch dogs of
the blood stream, removing bacteria 1
from the circulation and destroying
them, were described by Peyton Rouse ;
and J. W. Beard of the Rockefeller In- ,
stitute for Medical Research. They also
remove damaged blood corpuscles and !
particles of matter which get into the !
blood stream. Hitherto these cells have !
been inaccessible to direct study. Rouse
and Beard were able to obtain them ,
alive from some deeply anesthetized ani- ;
mals by injecting particles of a highly ;
magnetic iron preparation into the blood
stream and then drawing them from '
the liver with a magnet. The cells be- j
came susceptible to the magnet when !
they absorbed the iron particles. They j
have been able to keep some of these
cells alive outside the body. I
Discovery of the presence of formalde
hyde in primitive plants, indicating that
it may play a prominent part in for
mation of food from the soil by plants, j
was reported by Dr. Fred Allison of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute through
the use of the celebrated magnetic-opti- !
cal method of analysis which can de- j
tect the presence of substances in pro
portions as small as one part in a mil
lion. He found the formaldehyde in the
cells of algae. It is probable that its
formation is one step in the little un
derstood process by which plant* manu
facture carbohydrates out of minerals in ,
the soil.
DEPOSITORS TO RECEIVE
50 CENTS ON DOLLAR
First Payment by Closed Harriman
National Bank Believed
Likely Next Week.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 26 —The Herald
Tribune says the 6,500 depositors in the 1
closed Harriman National Bank & |
.Trust Co. will receive a first payment
I of 50 cents on the dollar probably early
next week, but that legal obstacles have
arisen in the way of the full payment
forecast by Secretary of the Treasury
Woodin two weeks ago.
Secretary Woodin. after a conference
! at his home here April 9. announced
; that the Manufacturers' Trust Co. had
! been designated liquidator and that
"the assets and claims of the Harriman
I National Bank & Trust Co. are ade
quate to meet its liabilities."
; One of the claims was against the
Clearing House Associtaion for a $6.
300.000 shortage in the Harriman
Bank's deposits. It had been planned
to borrow against the claims from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
but the Herald-Tribune says the Re
construction Finance Corporation can
not advance the full amount of the
deposits because the claim on the
clearing house does not meet the stand
ard as loan collateral.
OFFERS HOUSE PRAYER
Rev. John Compton Ball Takes
Place of Bev. J. S. Montgomery.
Rev. John Compton Ball, pastor of
the Metropolitan Baptist Church for
more than 30 years and dean of pastors
in Washington, offered prayer at the
opening of the House session yesterday,
substituting for the regular chaplain,
Rev. James Shera Montgomery.
Dr. Ball is the only man living who
has offered prayer in the House under
six Speakers.
CHURCH PLAY FRIDAY
Foundry Methodist Epworth League
to Oive Three-Act Comedy.
The Epworth League of Foundry
Methodist Church will present a three
act comedy, "All Night Long." at the
church dramatic hall, Sixteenth and
Church streets, Friday night. Special
music for the program, which is to
open at «:15 p.m., will be furnished
by tbe Chaminade Glee Club.
Hitler Board Drafts
Sterilization Law to
Guide Entire R^ich
Nazi Doctors' Proposals
for Eugenic Reforms
Are Recalled.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 26—The Prussian
Board of Health has drafted a steriliza
tion law to serve as a model for the
entire Reich, it wis announced semi
officially today. The details are not
made public.
Some sections of Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's Nazi party have been advocates I
of sterilization of the physically and
mentally unfit for many years.
Dr. Martin Staemmler, director of the
Pathological Institute at Chemnitz, said
in a speech before a group of Nazi phy
sicians In Leipzig more than a year ago
that Oerman citizens should be divided
Into three classes—those to be sterilized,
those who would bear misfits and those
able to bear healthy children.
He recommended sterilization of chil
dren bom dumb and blind and of de
fectives in order that the nation might
build a physically healthy "Nordic" race.
The physician also asserted that
women should be taken from their busi
ness occupations and sent back home
to discharge the duties of motherhood.
The theme of his address and of the
talks made by other physicians at the
meeting was that "we must be strong
and Intelligent."
SUPPORT RAILWAY
IN R. F. C. LOAN PLEA
0. C. Business Interests Fa
vor $425,000 for Chesa
peake Beach Co.
Washington .business interests have
[ thrown their support behind efforts of
the Chesapeake Beach Railway Co. to
| secure a $425,000 loan from the Recon
| struction Finance Corporation to aid in
I the establishment of a ferry across
I Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach
I to Hudson, Md., on the Eastern Shore.
Approved by I. C. C.
[ The project has been approved by the
: Interstate Commerce Commission, both
I from the standpoint of public conven
ience and necessity and through recoai
| mendation that the loan be made by
the R. F. C. In addition, it has the
\ support of the Chamber ot Commerce,
I the Board of Trade, the Merchants and
j Manufacturers' Association, the Amer
ican Automobile Association and many
individual citizcns.
A statement Issued today by the I
Washington Chamber ot Commerce I
pointed out that a ferry at Chesapeake j
Beach would give Washington motorists
direct access to the lower Eastern Shore i
of Maryland, enabling them to cit off
from 24 to 54 miles from the distance
to points ir. this territory by routes now '
available. Washington, for instance, it
is emphasized, would be 24 miles closer
to Salisbury and Ocean City by way of
this ferry than by the Annapolis-Clai
borne ferry.
It was emphasized also that the fer- i
ries it is contemplated putting in service |
on the proposed new line would cover
the 15 miles between Chesapeake Beach
and Hudson, Md.. in less than an hour,!
whereas the schedule between Annapolis
and Claiborne is from an hour and a
half to two hours, with Infrequent serv
ice.
Eastern Shore Held Bich
It was further pointed out that the
lower Eastern Shore is a rich and pro
ductive country, with a population of
more than 200.000 persons, with a pros
ptrous fishing, oyster and crab industry.
There also is heavy production in the
area of vegetables and other produce,
which, at present, is deflected by the
natural water barrier, not so much to
Baltimore, as to Wilmington. Philadel
phia. cities in New Jersey and New York.
"It is an artificial situation which
loses for Washington a great deal of
business right at its own door'' the
statement declared.
"The local community," it continued,
"has, so far. received nothing from tf\g
Reconstruction Finance Corporation ex
cept loans to banks on good collateral."
THREE ARE MISSING
AFTER TEXAS STORM
Washed From Stalled Car on
Bridge at Dallas—Many
Families Homeless.
/
By the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex.. April 26.—Three wom
en were believed drowned and dozens of
families were homeless as result of a
hail and rain storm that struck here
last night.
Miss Sybil Compton and Miss Clara
Cambridge, both 30, were missing. The
two women and Miss Irma Kicks. 29. a
companion, were washed from their
stalled motor car on a bridge over a
cri'ek made turbulent by rising water. A
colored woman, Alice Berry, 40, lost her
life when the flood waters washed her
againit a fence.
Miss Hicks was rescued by police and
firemen from the branches of a tree
on the creek bank, 30 feet downstream
irom tiie bridge.
Hailstones measuring one Inch or
more in diameter accompanied the
downpour. Several persons were bruised
by the pellets and windows In build
ings. trolley cars and motor cars were
broken.
City officials estimated the damage
may exceed $100,000.
NAVY BAND HONORS
SECRETARY WOODIN
Presents Program Devoted Exclu
sively to His Works—Distin
guished Audience Present.
The United States Navy Band honored
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin last
night in a program given at the navy,
yard and devoted exclusively to his
works.
Mr. Woodin was not able to attend,
due to a severe cold. A distinguished
audience was at hand, however, includ
ing members of the diplomatic corps
and friends of Mr. Woodin associated
with him in the Treasury.
The program, which was arranged
and sponsored by Lieut. Charles
Benter, leader of the Navy Band, in
cluded the new march by Mr. Woodin,
called "Franklin Delano Roosevelt"; a
symphonic suite, "The Covered Wagon,"
in which a solo was played by Musician
Charles Brendler; a "Valse de Concert,"
which is dedicated to Mrs. Woodin, and
other well known works by Mr. Woodin,
including "The Police Parade" march,
which has been dedicated to the New
York City Pftlice Department.
Typhoid Epidemic Kills 400.
MANCHULI. Manchuria, April 26 14").
—Pour hundred persons have died in a
typhoid epidemic in Siberian regiorfs
contiguous to the Manchurian border.
The disease was crjd to be spreading
toward Manchuria. Manchukuan au
thorities have quarantined the frontier.
PROTESTANT UNITY
URGED ON PASTORS
Washington Federation of
Churches Re-elects Col.
Tufts President.
Greater co-operation and unity among: (
Protestant faiths must come before the
church will reach ltr ultimate useful
ness to humanity. Rev. Dr. George A.
Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York, de
clared last evening at the annual din
ner and meeting of the Washington I
Federation of Churches, hrld 't Calvary
Baptist Church. He praisr 4 he Wash
ington Federation of Chi r in s for its
work.
Discussing the "Marks of a Vital
Church." he outlined the elements nec- ,
essaiy for a church to dc thr most goo-!.
Its ministers, he said, must bring a
new and adventurous message to the |
people and must continually be on the (
alert for new fields of endeavor. He
advocatrd the system of a multiple min- ■
istry with different tasks assigned dif- I
ferent pastors. A vita church, the'
speaker declared, must b-> democratic,
useful to its people and be imbued with
a reverent spirit.
Col. Tufts Re-elected.
Col. W. O. Tufts, president of the
federation, was re-elected and all ether
officers recommended by the Nominating
Committee, headed by I^r. Frederick
Brown Harris of the Foundry Methodist
Church, were elected.
At the business meeting, -which fol
lowed the dinner. Col. Tufts told the
approximately 400 members of the
federation attending that the federation
has just undergone one of its most suc
cessful vears since its organization in
March. 1920. Mrs H. Wellen Fisher,
president of the Woman's Council, an
integral part of the federation, made a
similar report for her organization.
Col. Tufts introduced Rev. Dr. Roy B.
Guild of New York City, who came to
Washington 14 years ago and spent a
year here organizing the federation.
Dr. Guild congratulated the federation
on its growth to its present strength of
116 churches in 20 denominations ana
on the spirit it has shown in religicus
work in the face of present adverse con
ditions.
Addresses encouraging the members
were made by Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy
and Bishop W. F. McDowell, retired.
They urged more generous financial
support of the federation's program.
I Besides Col. Tufts the newly elected
• officers of the federation are:
j Rev. C. C. Rasmussen, Rev. B. W.
; Meeks and Henry Brewood. vice presi
j dents; S. Merton Chipley, treasurer, and
Horace L. Stevenson, assistant treas
urer.
Representatives Chosen.
Chosen as denominational represent
atives to the federation were Dr. Aber
nethy and R. L. Haycock. Baptist; Rev.
Homer A. Kent. Brethren; Rev. P. P.
Holsopple. Church of the Brethren; J.
D. Walcott. Congregational: Rev. M.
Elmer Turner and C. L. Dalrymple,
Disci Dies: Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips
and Newbold Noyes, Episcopal: Rev. G.
E. Sclinabel. Evangelical; H. F. Dunk
horst. Evangelical Synod of N. A.: L. D.
Clark. Friends; Rev. John Weidley and
H. B. Homer, United Lutheran: Rev.
H W. Burgan and Edward Dice. Meth
odist Episcopal; Rev. E. C. Beery and
B. J. Hamm, Methodist Episcopal
South: Rev. G. E. McDorman and Jul
ian P. Dodge, Methodist Protestant;
Rev. F. S. Niles and Homer A. A. Smith.
Presbyterian; W. L. Fulton. Presbyte
rian U. S. (Southern): Rev. Paul
Speery, New Church: Rev. H. H. Ranck,
Reformed; Staff Capt. Herbert Bartlett,
Salvation Army: Rev. S. B. Daugherty,
United Brethren; Rev. C. E. Hawthorne.
United Presbyterian, and E. L. Blom
quLst, Community Church.
The following committee chairmen
were elected:
Roy W. Prince, civic affairs; Rev.
Frederick Brown Harris, comity; R.
Spencer Palmer, employment: Rev. C.
H. Jope. evangelism; Rev. Joseph R.
Sizoo. international good will; Norton
M. Little, music and radio: Rev. E. O.
Clark, publicity; Rev. R. Y. Nicholson,
public meeti:^s: Rev. D. Butler Pratt,
race relations: Miss Katherine Wilfley,
religious draiaa: J. S. Noffsinger, re
ligious education; Rev. Harvey Baker
Smith, social service: Dr. Stewart Pat
terson, ycung people's work.
Officers of the Woman's Council
elected were: Mis. H. Wellen Fisher,
president; Mrs. H. M. Kendrick, Mrs.
W. R. Rhoades. Mrs. Thomas E. Robert
son, Mrs. A. A. Stockdale. Mrs. David
W. Lumm, Mrs. Harvey Baker Smith
and Mrs. Frank E. Edgington, vice
presidents: Mrs. George A. Ross, corre
sponding secretary; Mrs. G. W. Irish,
corresponding secretary; Mrs. E. C.
Dinwiddie, treasurer, and Mrs. J.
Claude Keiper, chairman of denomi
national representatives.
New department chairmen are: Mrs.
Everett M. Ellison, juvenile court; Mrs.
William M. Darby, missionary: Mrs.
E. E Danly, law and legislation; Mrs.
E. F. Parsons, world friendship and
goodwill, and Mrs. Ralph B. Kennard,
foreign students.
TORRENCE UNDEfl KNIFE
Star Undergoes Operation for In
testinal Trouble.
NEW YORK, April 26 M5).—Ernest
Torrence. the motion picture actor, un
derwent an operation yesterday for in
testinal trouble and gall stones.
He was stricken a week ago en route
from Hollywood to his native Scotland
with Mrs. Torrence for an extended
vacation and removed to a hospital from
the Empress of Britain. At that time
his illness was reported as muscular
rheumatism in his back.
Bicyclist Severely Injured.
Bernard Lucas, 15, colored. 2623 Barry
road southeast, was severely injured
yesterday when his bicycle collided with
the automobile of Russell R. Benhoff,
1345 Valley place southeast, at Nichols
avenue and Good Hope road. He was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
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